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Add 15296 (1) f.111r, Meanwhile, all is peaceful with the exiles in their abode on...

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Image title: Add 15296 (1) f.111r, Meanwhile, all is peaceful with the exiles in their abode on the Citrakuta mountain. Rama points out its beauties Sita - the many varieties of lovely trees and birds, the rocks coloured by gems and minerals, and the Mandakina river which rises in the mountain and flows along the bottom of the picture, with hermits praying, meditating and bathing along it. Rama decorates Sita's forehead with red arsenic and takes her protectively in his arms when a lion growls. They return to the hut, where Laksmana has killed deer and prepared food, which the two brothers eat while Sita keeps the flies away. After they have eaten, an audacious crow annoys Sita. Rama, enraged, takes aim at it with an arrow made of a reed. The crow is refused protection by all in the three worlds (heaven being represented by a pair of divine beings in a heavenly chariot, and the underworld by a snake-king and his queen). It returns to beg for mercy from Rama, who allows his arrow to pierce just the eye of the bird, thereby sparing its life.
Artist: Indian School, (17th century) / Indian
Location: British Library, London, UK

Image description: Ramayana Udaipur, c.1653 Language: Sanskrit Source/Shelfmark: Add. 15296(1), f.111
Photo credit: From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
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